Time for a break - NOT.
This entry was posted on 11/6/2007 9:20 AM and is filed under Techinicalities,EcoPhotography.
Mount Washington in New Hampshire's White Mountains.
This is the first week since early September, where I'll be home and in the office the entire week. Over the course of the last two months, I've been on the road shooting, teaching, and selling (I made a three day trip to NYC for a great picture event called Picturehouse) an average of 5 days a week. I've met some great people, experienced some wonderful moments in the natural world, and shot close to 10,000 images, primarily in Maine in New Hampshire.
This past weekend was pure joy, staying home both days, playing with the kids, and performing the usual late fall odd jobs around the house. During my last two weeks on the road, I looked forward to this week with great anticipation. I imagined quiet time in my office, cleaning my gear and catching up on e-mail, basically taking a break. HA! You know those 10,000 images I shot? Those all need to be edited, converted from RAW files to Tiffs, cleaned-up, captioned and sent to the clients who are anxiously awaiting the work they commissioned. At a minimum, I figure that will take me three weeks of full-time work (and clients complain when I charge a post-processing fee!) I've also got a few thousand older images that are awaiting keywording before I send them to our stock agencies, and upload them to our website and three web portals. The keywording and some of the image clean-up I can outsource, but most of this work will fall to me.
Industrial Canals and the Connecticut River in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
O.K. Enough whining from me. The above shot of Holyoke, MA is from an aerial shoot I did on Friday that was the last bit of shooting I needed to complete for the Connecticut River photo project we have been working on for 1 1/2 years. Overall, I spent more than 100 days in the watershed, and it feels great to be done (although I'm sure I'll head back to the river for more photography next year.) This project was undertaken for the Trust for Public Land's Connecticut River project office, and it has been a great experience, allowing me to create a unique body of work that celebrates New England's largest watershed and highlights its scenic, cultural, wilderness, and agricultural qualities that represent the best that New England has to offer. TPL will use the photos from this project to promote its conservation efforts in the watershed. We are also planning to turn this project into a book and possible gallery show as well. Stay tuned on that front.
Time to get back to processing those images....
Until next time...
-Jerry
